Some countries have farm medicines which will escape this directive but we do not divide our medicines between farm medicines and veterinary medicines. A package of choices will have to be made and domestic legislation will have to be changed. Perhaps in a few months time when this issue settles down and the Department officials have had to time to think it out, there could be an interesting debate with the Minister to tease out the implications. The co-operatives will let Members know all about it. There has been a public debate – it is one issue on which I would gently chide Members – in the Irish Farmers Journal, the farming supplement of the Irish Independent, The Examiner and other newspapers, on the comings and goings of the veterinary medicines directive for well over a year. No later than last week I read about this in the Irish Farmers Journal. Until it hits the ground, it does not become a politically sexy issue. People do not wake up and see the implications in this case. Some of us have been battling very hard, regrettably in vain. We did not have the support around the Council table as reflected by the COREPER people, who reflect how their Ministers will vote. Sweden, Portugal, the Netherlands, the UK and Ireland supported it but the other countries did not. The Italians did not support it because it was their Presidency and it is a huge coup for the pharmaceutical package, two directives and a regulation, to go through under the Italian Presidency.